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Argument Essay: In Defense Of Donald Trump

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In Defense of Donald Trump

This is a serious article. Although it will probably be a day late and a dollar short when it’s finally published, a few days after the Wisconsin primary. Moreover, what I write does not matter, at least for the powers that be, or whoever supports them.
It was prompted by a provocative article in Tablet Magazine, which affirmed there is a complete absence of serious articles in favor of Donald Trump; meaning the candidate is indefensible by serious, conscious people. Moreover, like most other articles on the subject, it lumps all Trump supporters together in the same pot: A pot filled to the top with reactionary, racist, illiterate, ignorant people, who, apparently, are more abundant in the United States than we …show more content…

In my country, Brazil, which, thanks to its very serious crisis made the front page of The New York Times this week, people like me, despite being the vast majority at this moment, are being publicly discredited by the so-called “intellectuals”; in our case, writers and artists and other opinionated personalities who favor the PT Party, preferably dubbed “Worker’s Party” in the U.S. These people, whose righteousness sounds authoritarian to the point of being offensive, of ignoring everybody else’s ideas as despicable and invalid, have been closing their eyes to the obvious criminal behavior of their all-time favorites. And lo and behold, they line up side by side with the government in the helping-the-poor fallacy, the fairness of which apparently must justify any hideous lie; among so many popular myths, now quite unpopular actually, the most audacious lie is about them having improved the life conditions of the Brazilian poor. How are “their” poor faring right now? A deeper look will certainly …show more content…

He begins his paragraph by listing myriad reasons why people like himself and his family should support Trump, based on what the candidate says in his rallies against war and in favor of justifiable anger, for example. “He torments a G.O.P. elite that cannot admit its own failures,” the veteran writes. And yet he concludes by affirming that “Donald Trump is unfit for our nation’s highest office.” Why? He does not say. Maybe somebody told him so, or he knows what he’s supposed to say in order to be praised, accepted, published, which is important. But he honestly ignores the real reason behind

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